Tree ID thread

frugalsar

Hi -
Can anyone help me identyfy my tree? It's Twice as tall a my house, Very thin and not too bushy, its leaves are long and thin and i've just discovered theres some little what look like nuts in clusters on it, there seemes to be little 'caps' on the nuts a bit like mini acorns cap, that the squirrels keep chucking down on us! Or does anyone know a good website that can identify trees? I've tried a few but nothing looks similar!

computerwoman

take a picture and go to your nearest garden centre or nursery a good plants man or tree man will know what it is...:D

M0neysav3r

Hi All

My neighbour has a tree in their front garden which is quite close to thier house (approx 5 mtrs) and ours but I'm not sure what type of tree it is?

I first thought it was a cherry tree but it has never produced any fruit so maybe it's not or maybe it's an ornamental???

Anyway, It is approx 4 mtrs tall, the trunk is about the size of a dinner plate (at the base) it blossomed about 3 weeks ago with small white flowers but it also has lots of light green leaves on too.

Any Ideas what it could be?

Lord_Gardener

Can you post a photo?

Here's a couple of sites for you to look through!!!
Fruit

http://www.brogdale.org/nfc_home.php

Natives

http://www.british-trees.com/guide/home.htm


Good luck!!

M0neysav3r

Thanks Lord Gardener - Had a good look and can't seem to find it on either site.......

Maybe I should take a photo and see if anyone can identify it then?

Reason I am enquiring now is I've just brought a Stella Cherry Tree and wondered if it would maybe help this tree to produce fruit (if it is a cherry that is)

Hmmmmmmm

Farway

Sounds like a plum of some sort judging by flowering time and flower

If no others in area then it would not be fertilised & hence no fruit, some are self fertile but if it is a plum then it obviously is not in that group

M0neysav3r

How do you attach a photo? I have taken a piccie but now can't work out how to get it on here......

frivolous_fay

When my tree looked like this in August, I thought it was going to turn out to be something exciting, or edible



I have been disappointed All the berries dropped off.. even the birds don't bother with them...

Here's the tree in bloom now. (Doesn't smell very nice)


Here's one of its humungous spikes


Here's the odd hawthorn-like thing growing out of the base of the trunk


Here's one of the seedlings (the berries germinate like crazy) that I put in a pot when I still thought it was an interesting tree


So... can anyone finally pin down what it is?

bryanb

Don't know what it is but I think the neighbours have one, I'll ask when I see them.

pink.1970

looks like blackthorn or hawthorn to me

mrbadexample

pink.1970 wrote: »

looks like blackthorn or hawthorn to me

If it's a blackthorn, wouldn't you get sloes?